Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This project is a good example of how AMEC can offer a total solution to clients by integrating the skills of different parts of the group and focusing them through a bespoke joint venture company , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ She says she can think of me as a husband seven years after Troy 's disappearance . ’ |
| 3 | Replace them as a whole Secondhand units may be purchased for approx £50 As you intend to fit a larger engine a Salisbury rear axle as fitted to Series 3 LWB which is much stronger than your present axle , should be considered |
| 4 | Think of them as a punk Dire Straits . |
| 5 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 6 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 7 | His solution is plausible , and essentially traditional — a suite of seven tiny movements which as serious concert music might just seem too relentlessly pleasant , but which as a Glyndebourne musical appetizer would no doubt blend very agreeably with garden scents , summer evening breezes and pre-performance small-talk . |
| 8 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 9 | Simon now took his only chance to measure himself against a Formula One driver . |
| 10 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 11 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 12 | After all , the film is about the terror and torture of needing to write and writing to need , which in a way this article is as well . |
| 13 | And they 're the kind of books which in a way encapsulated people 's views of what history was , the history of this country was , at that particular point in time . |
| 14 | I 've got two of them , the other one 's er cut himself on a bottle this morning , he 's been in the vE T all day , he 's just had |
| 15 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 16 | ‘ What on earth do you with a baby all day ? ’ asked a friend when he became a dad for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw you from a distance this morning , did n't I ? |
| 18 | But the thing is if you 're walking up er the driveway of a house , you do n't want to be caught and you do n't want to be seen and you , you think you 're under cover of darkness and then the big halogen floodlight comes on , puts you in a spotlight next door . |
| 19 | ‘ This scrumpy will be the death of you , Sooty , ’ he said seriously , ‘ they 'll find you in a ditch one night all blue in the face . ’ |
| 20 | The numbers you request from directory enquiries are read out to you by a speech generating computer ( other than a person ) . |
| 21 | I put them into a 24″ x 12″ x 12″ ( 10 gallon ) tank , kept at a constant 78°F . |
| 22 | It was therefore something of a surprise last Wednesday to amble into Darlington 's new Thai restaurant and find four-fifths of the D&S editorial staff seated serendipitously to lunch . |
| 23 | ‘ Notebook ’ PCs are even smaller , and several are available , but the Compaq LTE is the only one with a standard 3.5 inch disc drive ( 4c ) . |
| 24 | Now as we 've got nought one with a bit more room to fit in it it works a lot better . |
| 25 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 26 | I need something with a bit more life . ’ |
| 27 | in a chair but we felt we wanted erm something with a bit more support . |
| 28 | If you want something with a bit more bite , go for armagnac . |
| 29 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 30 | You 're probably better off with something with a bit more texture to it then . |